ABOUT THE BOOK

Are there 151 million orphans who are living without the love and protection of a family? Is it possible to care for orphans without orphanages? How can we support poor and vulnerable families to prevent children from being orphaned? How should Christians respond to corruption in international adoption?

In Defense of the Fatherless answers these critically important questions, challenging Christians to consider the truth about the global orphan crisis.

The book invites readers on a journey through the Bible to understand God’s heart for orphans and widows. Designed as a practical resource for Christian families and churches, the book empowers readers to reform international adoption and orphan care. In Defense of the Fatherless casts a powerful vision for the end of the orphan crisis, inviting Christians to protect and provide for orphans and widows in response to God’s mercy. Designed as a practical resource, the bookcasts a vision for how each of us can make a lasting difference in the lives of vulnerable families across the globe.

Do you have a heart for adoption and orphan care? In Defense of the Fatherless will help you:

Learn how to have an ethical adoption

Care for orphans without orphanages

Make a lasting difference on a short-term mission trip

Reform international adoption to stop corruption

Address the root causes of the orphan crisis: poverty, injustice and broken families

In Defense of the Fatherless is available for purchase now. Order your copy now on Amazon.com today!

This book offers careful research, sound theology, and practical resources regarding care for orphans, vulnerable children, and widows…You'll be informed and inspired to care wisely for orphans and vulnerable families and celebrate amazing organizations empowering mothers to raise and provide for their children.

- Lindsey and Justin Holcomb, co-authors of Rid of My Disgrace and Is It My Fault?

In Defense of the Fatherless helps the reader understand the complexity of the orphan and widow crisis and the urgency of providing families for children. This book will challenge, convict and fuel a conversation that is much needed today…I believe it offers an important and needed framework that has great potential to bring people from different sides of the conversation to the same table.

- Jason Kovacs, Co-Founder of Together for Adoption

…A paradigm shift in how we can view orphan care, orphan prevention, and family preservation through a more holistic lens. In Defense of the Fatherless is the book every adoption and family preservation advocate has been waiting to read.

- Jessica Honegger, Founder & Co-CEO of Noonday Collection

Sometimes you read a book that offends you because it forces you to rethink your worldview on a key topic. If you read In Defense of the Fatherless with a willingness to struggle and admit past mistakes, as well as a desire to learn, you just might find a new way forward on what it means to care for the fatherless on a deeper, more holistic level.

- Chris Marlow, Founder & CEO of Help One Now

Over recent years, there has been a welcome focus on the global issue of orphans and not only our responsibility for them, but the opportunity to model the gospel in our care for them. This book commends such concern, but challenges us to go much further…This book should be on the 2015 reading list for all those in church leadership.

- Steve Timmis, Executive Director of the Acts 29 Network and Pastor of The Crowded House